Gone Without A Sound: 50 Things That Disappeared Without Warning

*UPVOTES A MILLION TIMES*

It really sucks too. As soon as I pulled my life from the gutter and started making money 65k a year roughly and im still just as poor as I was it seems. Really messes with my psyche

America can have widespread middle-class prosperity or a billionaire class, not both. Just eight men, six of them American, now own half the world's wealth.

The American middle class was created by the land barons. At the time, the Indian and Blacks had begun rebelling against all of the death caused by the rich white land barons. The indentured white people working the land for those barons potentially could join the Indians and blacks. So the land barons gave those indentured servants some land. Those whites now felt they had something to lose and sided with the land barons. They in effect became a buffer between the rich and the poor.

Thanks to Ronald Reagan.

I miss these! ><;

Yes! When you got to choose what cereal to buy you chose it mainly for the toy and you ate more cereal than you really wanted so you could get the toy faster (it always sunk to the bottom of the box).

Used to beg my mom to buy the worst cereal based on how cool the prize inside was. I’d root around in the box, get the prize, then never eat the cereal.

Now I want that pez

There's one such toy I really miss. A donkey made of plastic that walked down a slope. No batteries. It was, and still is, 50 years ahead of robotics technology.

Sad but true : (

I still have plenty of it. Just keep reminding yourself that mostly only bad news makes the news and loud angry people get more clicks.

I've become the jaded individual I had hoped not to be.

Faith in humanity is a choice. You can't just sit on your butt at home and complain because you don't see it on the news it's happening, you're just missing it because you're hiding.

Hello, experience

I agree! Who care who pays for the parking spot. If someone pays for 4 hours from that spot, and only uses 2, they should have every right to have some else park there for the remainder 2 hours they paid for! There should be no stipulations in something given to you in exchange for work, like food vouchers. This is all greed from the higher ups in the world.

Saw a guy panhandling outside a theme park halloween event the other night. Automatically went to give him a couple bucks before I realized...theme parks are cashless now. I'd converted all my cash to prepaid cards when I went in. (The gradual disappearance of cash is also a pain when you are a dinosaur who uses cash for everything. :P)

Well don’t look now but there are meters that flip over to vacant when you leave the spot, so no one can grab your time.

I used to give money to the homeless and now when I see a person asking for money I always apologize and say “sorry I just have a card I don’t have any cash” when I walk by. Which probably sounds like an excuse. I thought gee nowadays the homeless should carry around that little “Square” or whatever so people could just use a credit card with them. I said this jokingly to a friend, because how could someone with no money buy a credit card mini iPad thingy. Although I did see someone with a phone once. It’s like an investment in their survival. You have to have one to do anything these days even in terms of dealing with shelters, unemployment etc. I’m sure.

This is a very interesting observation- I hadn't considered this perspective before.

This is the worst. Just let me play the Sims without waiting half an hour for it to update every single time!

If it's a permanent license, I buy it. It it's subscription only, I pirate it.

licenses can lick my sweaty balls

I went to check out how much an upgrade to my video editing software is and they don't do that anymore, it's $8 a month instead of a purchase and then I got grumpy.

LOL so you use the wrong things.

When I was young I remember air at the gas station being free. Now they charge for it. Talk about inflation!!

I recall 25 cents candy bars

When I was younger, sugar came in 5 lb bags; now they're 4 lb bags. Coffee was sold by the pound; now it's 9-12 oz. Ice cream came in half gallons; now you only get 56 oz. This has been going on for awhile now.

Also the cheaper ingredients in lots of things so they are not as healthy and taste worse.

This has always been a thing. We're noticing it now because inflation has risen sharply. It's noticeable every time there's a recession. I'm old and I've been through a few. This one's gonna get worse and last a long long time..

To say nothing of the prices.

Traveling used to be a real adventure, especially pre-GPS. Now, a lot of the major destinations are about as authentic as Epcot. My "Oh no" moment happened in Amsterdam. Wife and I stayed out too late shooting pool in a coffee shop in the Red Light district. Trams had stopped running so we decided to walk back to the Leidseplein using nothing but our limited knowledge of the street & canal plan and our sense of direction. We cut through a long alley shrouded in mist. Neon lights serve as a beacon to us in the distance. What local gem will we discover, I wondered. We emerge into a little square to find a "Red, Hot & Blue" bbq joint, just like the one we had in Arlington, VA. Seeing the same chain retail stores and restaurants wherever you go is so disheartening.